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INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
CRIPA Investigation, Landmark Learning Center, Opa-Locka (FL)

No Court

On May 17, 1995, the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division sent letters to the governor of Florida, the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and the Secretary of the United States Department of Education informing them of the DOJ's intent to investigate conditions at Landmark Learning Center and G. Pierce Wood Memorial Hospital pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq. The DOJ indicate…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Nelson v. Snider

2:94-cv-00440 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 1994

Closed Date: 2005

On January 24, 1994, individual plaintiffs, the Pennsylvania Protection Advocacy, Inc. and Arc-Pennsylvania filed this class action civil rights lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, challenging the care, conditions of confinement and habilitation of residents of Embreeville Center, a facility for the developmentally disabled in Pennsylvania. Plaintiffs alleged violation of their rights under Title XIX of the Social Security Act; the Rehabilitati…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Pennsylvania

2:93-cv-02094 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 21, 1993

Closed Date: Jan. 5, 2005

On September 1986, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice [DOJ] notified the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania [State], pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. §1997, that it was commencing an investigation into conditions at the Embreeville Center in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Embreeville was a State operated facility that provided care and treatment for residents with intellectual disabilities.The investigation included tours of the fac…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
DOJ CRIPA Investigation of the Whitten Center in Clinton (SC)

N/A | No Court

On February 8, 1995, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice [DOJ] sent notice to the State of South Carolina that it was conducting an investigation into the conditions of confinement at the Whitten Center in Clinton, South Carolina, pursuant to its authority under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ("CRIPA"), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq. Whitten was a state-operated institution housing approximately 800 developmentally disabled children and adults.The DOJ advise…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
People First of Wash. v. Rainer RHC

3:96-cv-05906 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Oct. 21, 1996

Closed Date: 1999

On October 21, 1996, four advocacy groups, the People First of Washington, the Arc of Washington State, the Autism Society of Washington, and the Washington Protection and Advocacy System (WPAS), and several individuals filed a class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, challenging the dangerous conditions at Rainier School, Washington's largest state-operated residential habilitation center for people with i…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Duffy v. Riveland

2:92-cv-01596 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Oct. 13, 1992

Closed Date: 2002

In 1992 and 1993, a deaf inmate incarcerated at the Washington State Reformatory at Monroe, Washington, filed two pro se suits in the U.S. District Court for the Western District Of Washington contending that prison officials failed to provide him with a qualified interpreter at prison proceedings in violation of his rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 ("ADA"); the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794 ("RA"); 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (" § 1983"); and Revis…
POLICING
L.A. County Sheriff's Department (Kolts Report and Implementation)

No Court Case | No Court

Filed Date: 1992

Closed Date: 2014

In the summer of 1991, following four controversial officer-involved shootings of minorities, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors appointed Judge James G. Kolts to lead an inquiry into the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD) and its handling of brutality complaints.Judge Kolts appointed attorney Merrick Bobb as general counsel to lead the inquiry. Mr. Bobb was previously part of the Christopher Commission's investigation of the LAPD in the wake of the Rodney King incident. He assemb…

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department: 1st Semiannual Report by Special Counsel Merrick J. Bobb & Staff

L.A. County Sheriff's Department (Kolts Report and Implementation)

Sept. 1, 1993

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department: 2nd Semiannual Report by Special Counsel Merrick J. Bobb & Staff

L.A. County Sheriff's Department (Kolts Report and Implementation)

April 1, 1994

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department: 3rd Semiannual Report by Special Counsel Merrick J. Bobb & Staff

L.A. County Sheriff's Department (Kolts Report and Implementation)

Dec. 1, 1994

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department: 4th Semiannual Report by Special Counsel Merrick J. Bobb & Staff

L.A. County Sheriff's Department (Kolts Report and Implementation)

June 1, 1995

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department: 5th Semiannual Report by Special Counsel Merrick J. Bobb & Staff

L.A. County Sheriff's Department (Kolts Report and Implementation)

Feb. 1, 1996

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INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
McCoy v. Belmont

3:85-cv-00465 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 1985

On September 30, 1985, two adult men with developmental disabilities filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against the Connecticut Department of Mental Retardation and managers and doctors affiliated with Southbury Training School, an intermediate care facility for people with intellectual disabilities (ICF/MR) in Southbury, Connecticut. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought injunctive relief and compensatory and punitive damages un…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
DOJ CRIPA Investigation of the Bellefontaine Habilitation Center, St. Louis, Missouri

Never Filed | No Court

Filed Date: April 11, 2007

On April 11, 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division ("DOJ") sent its "findings letter" to Missouri's governor, advising him of the results of the November 2005, DOJ investigation of conditions and practices at the Bellefontaine Habilitation Center ("Bellefontaine"), which houses developmentally disabled persons, including patients with intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, and autism. The investigation occurred under the authority of the Civil Rights of Institutional…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. New Jersey

3:04-cv-03708 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2004

Closed Date: 2009

On April 8, 2003, the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division ("DOJ") sent a findings letter to New Jersey's governor, advising him of the results of a May-June 2002, DOJ investigation of conditions and practices at the New Lisbon Developmental Center (NLDC), which houses people with developmental disabilities, with intellectual disabilities that ranged from mild to profound. The investigation occurred under the authority of the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA),…